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Monday Music
Given
to the Colony by the Monday Music Club of Orange, New Jersey, Monday
Music Studio is sited next to an enormous boulder deposited by
glaciers thousands of years ago.
A
small dormer once pierced the east slope of the roof, but after
damage suffered in the 1938 hurricane, the roof was rebuilt without
the dormer. The…
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Nef
Nef
Studio, the first entirely new studio built after 1937, was donated
by esteemed photographer, explorer, author, and Colony Fellow Evelyn
Steffanson Nef
in 1992.
Endowed funds for the studio’s maintenance in perpetuity and an
annual Fellowship for photographers were given in addition to funds
for construction. Mrs. Nef said she had known about The MacDowell
Colony all…
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New Hampshire
New
Hampshire Studio, originally named Peterborough Studio, was given to
the Colony by Mr. and Mrs. William Schofield, Mrs. H. A. Chamberlain,
Mrs. Andrew Draper, and Miss Ruth Cheney. The studio was renamed in
1943. The Gilbert Verney Foundation established an endowed
maintenance fund in 1990, and a bequest in memory of Colony Fellow
Victor
Candell underwrote
the…
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New Jersey
The
yellow clapboard New Jersey Studio, located on a grassy, sloping
site, was funded by the New Jersey Federation of Women’s Clubs and
built as an exact replica of Monday Music Studio (1913). The studio’s
porch rests on fieldstone piers that increase in height as the
ground slopes to the west.
Like
Monday Music Studio, New Jersey…
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Phi Beta
Funded
by the Phi Beta Fraternity, a national professional fraternity of
music and speech founded in 1912, Phi Beta Studio was built from
1929–1931 of granite quarried on MacDowell Colony property. The
small studio is very simple in design, but displays a pleasing
combination of materials with its granite walls and colorful slate
roofing.
Inside
is a…
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Schelling
Marian
Nevins MacDowell funded construction of this studio the year that the
organization was established and the first artists arrived for
residency. It was called Bark Studio until 1933, when it was renamed
in honor of Ernest Schelling, a composer, pianist, and orchestral
leader who served as president of what was then called the Edward
MacDowell…
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Eastman (formerly Shop)
Thanks
to the generous support of MacDowell Fellow and board member Louise
Eastman, a
century-old farm building has been reinvented as a modern, energy
efficient live and workspace for visual artists. Originally built to
provide storage when the Colony was expanding, this small barn was
simply converted for studio use in the mid-1950s with the addition…
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Sorosis
Sorosis
Studio was funded by the New York Carol Club of Sorosis. The small,
masonry studio was designed by F. Winsor, Jr., the architect who also
designed Savidge Library (1926) and Mixter Studio (1927).
At
the time of construction, the large porch on the southeast facade
offered a spectacular mountain view that has since been obscured…
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Sprague-Smith
In
January of 1976, the original Sprague-Smith Studio — built in
1915–1916 and funded by music students of Mrs. Charles
Sprague-Smith of the Veltin School — was destroyed by fire.
Redesigned by William Gnade, Sr., a Peterborough builder, the
fieldstone structure was rebuilt the same year from the foundation
up, reusing the original fieldstone. A few…
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